BE CAREFUL

Faces that tell of the inside

Wear not around them that crucify you

And reveal the wetness

Hidden in your tear glands;

That picture you fallen when standing

Mock not with them

Not even for a while

When all is well

Be mindful what you say

Be careful what you do

This place is not your home

For soon you will leave

Attitudes and manners

You leave behind

Even when departed;

Disregard them not.

Only like branches in the wind those words of ignorance blow

And return you wherever they took you.

Instructions and reproof

May appear to harm

Yet will give off smell so pleasing

An incense to the undying soul.

Those eyes that saw you

Will never forget your deeds, all.

For and against, which they record

Will they recall.

Opportunities lost are never returned

When time and chance

Are spent not on gold.

Like a tale to a child I have said it:

Be mindful what you say

Be careful what you do

This place is not your home

For soon you’ll leave.

Again in this world or next

Shall we meet

Lesser or greater we’ll be.

Those, will be remembered of you

This ear will resound it again

Pleasant or foul your deeds

Written in ink indelible.

Be mindful, what you’ve said

Be careful, what you’ve done

In this place which is not your home;

Then you’ll be gone.